UPDATED 10:33 AM ET Mar. 14, 2024 PUBLISHED 4:25 PM ET Mar. 13, 2024 PUBLISHED 4:25 PM EDT Mar. 13, 2024 SHARE NATIONWIDE — SpaceX was able to successfully launch Starship on Thursday morning and while the spacecraft itself was in space for the first time, it was lost while orbiting the planet. Its exact fate is currently unknown after the company stated it was not sending out a signal. What You Need To Know A number of accomplishments were made, stated SpaceX It was the longest Starship test so far; about 51 minutes The launch happened at the company’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas Scroll down to learn more about the Starship SpaceX was waiting for the FAA to grant its approval for the third flight attempt. The company announced last week that it was aiming for Thursday for the launch date. SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk posted on X, stating that "Starship will make life multiplanetary." About Starship Starship is where SpaceX’s hopes and dreams are stored. If all goes well, it will take humans back to Earth’s moon and eventually, it will go to Mars. It is a two-stage heavy lift launch rocket that will be a fully reusable transportation system to carry humans and cargo into space. The rocket is known as the Super Heavy and the spacecraft is called Starship, but collectively, they are known as Starship. Both the Super Heavy rocket, with its 33 Raptor engines fueled by thousands of tons of sub-cooled liquid oxygen and liquid methane, and the Starship are designed to be reusable. The Starship is planned to carry 100 crew members and cargo to Earth orbit, the moon and eventually Mars, according to the ship’s user guide. What to expect for the third-test flight For the third test, SpaceX stated it built on the two previous launches and planned to showoff a series of demonstrations. “The third flight test aims to build on what we’ve learned from previous flights while attempting a number of ambitious objectives, including the successful ascent burn of both stages, opening and closing Starship’s payload door, a propellant transfer demonstration during the upper stage’s coast phase, the first ever re-light of a Raptor engine while in space, and a controlled reentry of Starship. It will also fly a new trajectory, with Starship targeted to splashdown in the Indian Ocean,” SpaceX explained. If things had gone according to plan, this would have been Starship's flight path. Starship’s flight trajectory for today's test pic.twitter.com/1YJbO1tRxz